· John Adams: a member of the Army’s Accident Investigation team
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· Felicity Aston spent 3 years in Antarctica working as a meterologist. Now, a keen polar adventurer, she is organising the Commonwealth Women's Antarctic Expedition.
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· Paul Baker has been travelling with School parties of all ages for over 30 years. He was the founder of Dragon Exploration which was a flagship for taking younger children into more extreme areas in the 1990s. He retired in July but continues his work with the RGS and Geographical Association.
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· Ed Bassett has, since leaving the Army in 1986, concentrated on canoeing expeditions and his most recent projects include the 1997 Coppermine River Expedition, the 2001 Burnside River Expedition, the 2004 Trans Kenya Trek and the Sabaki River Expedition. Ed current runs EBAdventures.
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· Jeff Blumenfeld is editor and publisher of Expedition News. Jeff also writes quarterly for The Explorers Journal. He will release a book in 2009 about raising money for adventures and expeditions.
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· Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent travelled 12,500 miles by tuk tuk from Bangkok to Brighton and works for the Adventurists who organise the Mongol Ralley amongst others.
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· Dan Boylin is a lead instructor for Land Rover he has also been involved in the selection and training of the Land Rover G4 Challenges
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· Hilary Bradt co-founder of Bradt Travel Guides and more recently involved in 'giving something back' to local communities through Stuff Your Rucksack.
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· Nick Brown 30 years ago, Nick Brown developed an unparalleled approach to WaterBased cleaning and waterproofing products which remain the bestselling Nikwax solutions of today. 15 years later he pioneered a radical alternative to conventional waterproof fabrics in Páramo’s range of unique ‘Directional’ garments.
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· Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop is an educator and expedition leader. He is director of Digital Explorer who aim to enhance young people's engagement with the wider world.
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· Richard Bull Former session musician with many recording credits and rock band musician with chart success. Has done most things in the diving industry, but best known as a consultant, contractor, and supervisor in the Film and Television industry. Credits include Blue Planet, Amazon Abyss, Pacific Abyss, Killer Squid and Oceans.
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· Mike Cavenett works for the London Cycling Campaign, a charity striving to improve conditions for cyclists in the capital. He is responsible for the London Cyclist magazine, the main information source for LCC’s 11,000 members, and www.lcc.org.uk, a valued web resource for all cyclists. For many years, Mike worked as a journalist on consumer brands at global publishers such as Haymarket, IPC and VNU.
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· Luce Choules runs her own design practice that specialises in information mapping, editorial photography and visual communication.
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· Matthew Davies is a partner at Hill Dickinson law firm specialising in leisure and expedition litigation.
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· Paul Davis is one of the team at the Land Rover Experience franchise owned by Land Rover at Eastnor in Herefordshire. Paul instructs some of the many courses that run out of the Centre.
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· Roger Daynes spent 2 years in Antarctica with BAS and set up and runs Snowsled Polar.
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· Paul Deegan has extensive mountaineering experience including 3 trips to Everest.
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· Charles Foster is a barrister, writer and traveller with extensive experience organising desert expeditions, particularly involving camels.
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· Tina Fotherby ran The YES Consultancy, a PR consultancy specialising in promoting expeditions via media relations.
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· Paul Goodyer is CEO of Nomad Travel Stores and Medical Centres he also writes weekly travel tips for the Sunday Times.
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· Dominic Hall runs Fieldskills UK build on experience from over 20 expedions including over two years living in his jungle hammock.
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| · Richard Hammond writes a regular Guardian column on green travel and is currently writing the Rough Guide to Green Travel.
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· Martin Hartley specialises in documenting the most inaccessible parts of the planet.
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· Peter Harvey is founding director of Wilderness Expertise and currently consults for teams working in remote environments.
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· Alex Hibbert is an expedition leader, photographer, athelete and zoologist. He recently led the Tiso TransGreenland Expedition.
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· Dan Hourigan a former Geologist with GPS and Field Mapping experience gained in the UK, SW Spain, Australia and New Zealand who came to the RGS via the Bogda Shan expedition to NW China (RGS sponsored in 2000). Currently working as an IT Engineer in SW London.
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· Lynn Hughes is the editor of Wanderlust magazine
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· Al Humphreys attended Explore in 2000 and upon graduating was inspired to cycle round the world. He has written two books on his journey and is currently planning an unsupported return journey to the South Pole.
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· Cory Jones specialises in educational governance, outdoor education courses and training, and ecological consultancy. Their activities range from overseas programme management, expedition leadership and developing environmental systems, to training in conservation skills, leadership skills and first aid.
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· Richard King studied Geography at Durham University where he was a member of an undergraduate research expedition to Malawi in 2005. He has a MSc in International Development from the University of Manchester, has spent a year living and working in the Philippines and now works as a policy researcher for Oxfam.
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· Neil Laughton has travelled to over 60 countries, organised and led a dozen expeditions to each of the seven continents and climbed the seven summits.
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· Jason Lewis recently returned from 13 years circumnavigating the world by human power.
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· Rob Lilwal spent 3 years cycling home from Siberia through Papua New Guinea, Tibet and Afganistan. He is currently writing a book about it.
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· Peter Lovell was responsible for the safety of the Latitude team, and was also in charge of all mechanical issues. The team has recently finished driving around the world as the winners of the first ever Land Rover Go Beyond Bursary.
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· Mac Mackenney, from Army helicopter technician to overland expedition logistics. Mac has worked with Sir Ranulph Fiennes and on the Xtreme Everest medical research expedition.
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| · Gregor MacLennan has been working for 7 years in Peru defending the rights of indigenous peoples in remote parts of the Amazon. He has coordinated campaigns to stop illegal logging and defend indigenous people in their fight with petroleum companies. This year he has been working with the Achuar people to help them monitor oil spills in their ancestral territory, documenting the contamination with cameras and GPSs. |
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· Nick McWilliam has travelled the world by mapping it. As a GIS expert he currently works for a charity called MapAction.
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· Duncan Milligan has been a tour leader/driver for Dragoman Overland for the last 5 years, in this time he has driven from the UK to Cameroon and back, Nairobi to Cape Town, kathmandu and the UK via China, Tibet and Central Asia.
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· James Moore is a Matron / Emergency Nurse at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and is Director of Travel Health Consultancy. He has extensive experience working as an expedition medic on expeditions across the globe.
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· Bryony Morgan studied Biology at Newcastle University where she completed two undergraduate expeditions. She then went on to work for the World Bank on biodiversity projects in Indonesia and Mongolia, and is now studying for an MSc.
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· Mark Mulligan, Department of Geography at Kings College London is an active researcher who promotes the importance of field research as fundamental to understanding and better managing environments and ecosystems.
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· Hallam Murray, now a freelance lecturer, writer and photographer, has cycled from California to Tierra del Fuego and across the Falklands as well as visiting India with the whole family by bike!
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· Andy Pag as been running vehicle based expeditions across the Sahara for over 10 years, including 2007’s world’s first carbon negative expedition to Timbuktu in a chocolate powered truck and more recently he organized the Grease to Greece fat-finding challenge to Athens.
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| · Suresh Paul of Equal Adventure who has canoed with disabled friends down the Ganges and across Arctic Canada.
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| · Roger Payne is a climber and mountian guide with first ascents all over the world.
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· Alistair Philip studied Geology at the Royal School of Mines before Joining the Royal Navy in '95, specialising as a hydrographic surveyor.
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| · Jo Royle is one of Europe's leading young female ocean yacht racing skippers. Over 75,000 miles worht of sailing experience, has taken her through some wild and wonderful environments.
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· Lois Pryce quit her job at the BBC in 2003 to ride her trail motorcycle from Alaska to the tip of South America. This ten-month, solo journey took her twenty-thousand miles through fourteen countries, then in 2006 she set off from her home in London to ride to Cape Town. Lois has written two bestselling books about her adventures.
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· Tariq Qureshi is the Medical Adviser to Oxford University Expeditions Council, a body of academics which considers whether to give the University’s formal approval to student-led expeditions and is a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine. His interests include mountaineering in the Arctic and participation in endurance events. Tariq will be available throughout Explore to discuss any aspects of medical preparation for expeditions.
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· Peter Raines is Founder and Managing Director of Coral Cay Conservation Limited. Peter has a BSc in Marine Biology and Biochemistry. Coral Cay Conservation is an international organisation dedicated to poverty alleviation through biodiversity conservation. Spanning a period of three decades, Peter has been involved with international conservation throughout Mesoamerica, the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific. Peter was recently awarded the MBE in recognition of his contribution to biodiversity conservation.
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· Spike Reid was the photographer, navigator and in charge of media for the Latitude Expedition, an around-the-world expedition along the line of 50 degrees north in a Land Rover Defender, which was the first ever winner of the Land Rover/RGS "Go Beyond" Bursary.
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· Kenton Rogers is a Forester and a Trustee of the International Tree Foundation (ITF). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Chartered Environmentalist and a Professional member of the Arboricultural Association. His work for the ITF includes setting up Community forest projects in the Sahara and Sahel.
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· Sam Rutherford began as a helicopter pilot in the British Army and having experience of over 80 foreign countries set up Prepare2Go providing rally-raid logistics support.
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· Ben Saunders skied solo to the Geographic North Pole (from N 81'47.6 E 095'49.2) in 2004 and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton (straight line distance 1032.3km). In March 2009 Ben will attempt a solo/unsupported North Pole speed record from Ward Hunt Island, and in October 2009 sets out to make the first return journey to the South Pole on foot.
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· James Sawyer’s experience of the expeditions covers almost a decade having worked in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Philippines, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. he has specific expertise in both rainforest and diving expeditions. In April of 2009 James will lead a team of scientists to a previously unexplored area of the Philippine rainforest. James currently works as a Disaster Relief Operations Manager.
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· Ivan Scales is now a lecturer at Cambridge after recently finishing a PhD on the socio-economic dimensions of deforestation.
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· Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologists, writer and broadcaster.
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· Chris Scott has, since 1982, undertaken over thirty expeditions through the Sahara by motorcycle, 4WD, Mercedes sedan, MAN truck and most recently, camel. In 1997 he originated the term 'adventure motorcycling' - these days the fastest growing arm of motorcycling and his books and dvds include Rough Guide Australia, Sahara Overland, Adventure Motorcycling Handbook and Desert Riders broadcast on National Geographic Channel.
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· Richard Scrase is a Science Media Producer. He frequently works with Redcurrent Films. This year he co-produced a film about the Millennium Seed Bank for the Nuffield Foundation.
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· David Smith was in charge of logistics, supplies and diplomatic relations for the Latitude Expedition, circumnavigating the globe in 2008 for Land Rover and the RGS' first 'Go Beyond' Bursary.
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· Nick Smith is a writer, photographer and editor currently writing a book on Zanzibar.
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· Dr Catherine Souch is Head of Research and Higher Education at the RGS-IBG.
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· Jonathan Stevens works for Impact International, a keen traveller - particularly to the Arctic, North America and the Karakoram - Jonathan has an extensive background in leading adventurous expeditions and helping other to do the same.
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| · Richard Teeuw is a lecturer in applied geomorphology and remote sensing at Portsmouth University. From undergraduate level to today Richard has travelled the world using remote sensing as part of his fieldwork.
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· Austin Vince is a maths teacher in London. Although relatively unknown to the general public, he is a legend in the global adventure motorcycle community. He was the driving force behind two of the most famous motorcycle films ever made: Mondo Enduro (1996) and Terra Circa (2001).
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· Paul Walker is the world's most experienced leader of mountaineering expedition to Arctic Greenland. He owns Tangent Expeditions - a Greenland Expedition Specialist Company.
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| · Nigel Winser was appointed as Executive Director to the Earthwatch Institute in June 2005. Prior to his role at Earthwatch, Nigel acted as Deputy Director and Head of the Expeditions and Fieldwork Division at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). |
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| · Elaine Anderson is President of Edinburgh University Expedition Society and currently in her third year of Ecological Sciences at Edinburgh. |
| · Tom Ang is a photographer, author, broadcaster and traveller. He specialises in travel and digital photography having written 20 books and won numerous awards. |
| · Amy Beavan is in her forth year of Evolutionary Biology at Edinburgh University and coordinated a student led expeditions to Gabon. |
| · Josephine Beynon is in her forth year of Zoology at Edinburgh University and has participated in student-led expeditions to Gabon and Borneo. |
| · Bill Burnett is a marine ecologist with a PhD in evolutionary genetics. He has worked and dived all over the world. He was a Research Fellow at the Department of Marine Sciences and Coastal Management, University of Newcastle and ran the RGS-IBG coral reef monitoring project in the Seychelles. |
| · James Cheshire is a geography PhD student at UCL working predominently with mapping technology. Prior to commencing his PhD he worked in Alaska mapping glacial movement. |
| · George Collins is a second year medical student at UCL Medical school and has led a medical research project to North-West Cameroon in summer 2008. |
| · Matt Dyas is a filmaker with a background in expedition productions. He is currently a producer on the Landmark BBC Two series Oceans. |
| · Matthew Fielding has led several expeditions to Peru and Ghana and worked out in Malaysia on canopy research. He currently works for CREES Expeditions. |
| · Mark Gillett is an expedition leader, speaker, photojournalist and explorer specialising in desert travel. |
| · Paul Gowen is the senior travel administrator for RAC motoring services, he has extensive knowledge of vehicle circulation, inport/exploret proceedures and documentation and has managed the 'carnet' service for the RAC. |
| · Flt Lt Andrew Grieve is a RAF trainee in general practice, currently working in Peterborough A&E. he has been actively involved with wilderness and mountain medicine since 2001 and is a founder and past-president of Oxford Wilderness Medical Society. |
| · Tim Guildford is a Professor of Animal Behavior at Oxford University where he does research on bird navigation. In particular he has used minature on-board GPS tracking devices, and more recently on-board video. |
| · Paul Harris is a freelance photographer specialising in cultural documentary and adventure travel. |
| · Rebecca Harris - As a writer, designer sn producer of TV documentaries Rebecca's love of advenutre and travel was fuelled working at the BBC Natural History Unit with David Attenborough. Since then she has led many expeditions of her own and worked on many wildlife and presenter-led documentaries. |
| · Jessica Hatcher is a freelance writer and video jounalist. Having never been to Africa and never been a keen cyclist she set off in April 2008 as the only female member of Cycle of Life expedition, bicycling 5000 miles visiting community focused conservation projects. |
| · David Hills has worked for many years as a teacher, instructor and expedition leader. |
| · Ryan Hogan is a third year medical student at Bristol University and was an assistant medic on a BSES Expedition to Ladak, India. He has also worked on many other global projects. |
| · Tara Hooper is Director of the Marine Education Trust. |
| · Tom Hooper was the director of Shoals Rodrigues, an NGO based in the Indian Ocean which carries out marine research, education and training. |
| · Ginny Howells is currently studying Chemistry at Oxford University. This summer she led the Oxford University expedition to Northern China. |
| · Antony Jinman has spent the past couple of years building experiences on Baffin Island ans working closely with the Inuit communities there. His Polarventure 2008 had the backing of the International Polar Year and the Royal Geographical Society. |
| · Alexander Kumar is a junior doctor working in Brighton and has travelled through 50 countries. He holds an Internationlal Heath degree and completed the first piece of research on HIV among Inuit. |
| · Quintin Lake is a documentary and architecutral photographer. He has photographed in over 50 countries and particpated in 7 expeditions in a variety of different environments. |
| · Jason Lewis set off in July 1994 with an ex-college friend to attempt the first circumnavigation of the globe using only human power: Expedition 360. In 2008 he returned alone and having covered 4833miles and learnt a great deal about himself and the world. The expedition to date has raised over $100,000 for small-scale charitable causes and been involed in a variety of environmental and cultural exchange programmes. |
| · Jeff Marlow is a PhD student at Imperial College working on ExoMars, Europe's next mission to Mars that will look for signs of life. |
| · Jessamy Marsden recently graduated in Tropical Environmental Science from the University of Aberdeen haivng been involved in a variety of student expeditions she used these experiences to work in St Lucia for the Durrell Wildlife Trust on graduating. |
| · Tor McIntosh is a freelance picture editor specialising in travel and nature photography. She has recently helped organise WildPhotos 2008 the UK's largest nature photography symposium held at the Royal Geographical Society. |
| · Hannah McKeand - In December 2006, Hannah skied solo and unsupported to the South pole beating the previous speed record. She is currently attempting to become the first woman to ski solo and unsupported to the North pole after having her attmpt last year cut short following a dramatic fall into ice. |
| · Jamie McWilliam is an undergraduate at Edinburgh Univserity in Ecology. He and 5 other students coordinated an undergraduate research project to Gabon in summer 2008. |
| · Alan Moncrieff-Smith is an active promoter of wheelchair opportunities in travel through his not-for-profit 'Wheel the World' organisation which he set up in the early Nineties following a spinal cord injury. He has also travelled extensively since. |
| · Rob Murray-John has been involved in expeditions to the tropics since 1993, he was managing director of Treckforce Expeditions and more recently set up his own company Sky 2 Sea International. |
| · Steven Oliver - A veteran of more than 200 expeitions Steve has been all over the world. He joined Operation Wallacea in 1997 and is now based permanently in Indonesia. |
| · David Peddie is an African wildlife ecologist who has worked throughout southern Africa on wildlife management projects, rural economic improvement programmes and the development of wildlife-based tourism. |
| · Lois Pryce - In 2003 Lois quit her job with the BBC to ride her trial motorcycle from Alaska to the tip of South America this was a solo trip and in 2006 she got hte bug again and went from London to Cape Town. She has recently written a book about her adventures. |
| · Jo Royle has spent her working life as an ocean yachtswoman. Currently based in London she is one of the few sailors to have circumnavigated South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. She has now decided to put her experience of the world and its changing environments into practice and is studying for an MSc in Environmental Science and Society at UCL. |
| · John Slayer - The son of a marine biologist, Jon has participated in marine and coastal research from an early age. He is now an putting his wealth of experience into practice as an expedition and documentary film maker. |
| · Stephen Stapleton PGCE - Artist and Educator, Stephen has worked as an expedition artist in many an exotic place. His latest project has involved the development of the Offscreen Education programmes involving cultural and artistic exchanges between UK and Middle Eastern students. |
| · Oliver Steeds is a broadcast journalist, expeditioner and presenter for the Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel and co-founder of iNomad that works to communicate discovery through education and the media. |
| · Daniel Stoker is the Higher Education Officer a the RGS-IBG. After studying marine biology at Southampton University Daniel worked for Blue Venures both in the UK and SW Madagascar focusing on fisheries research. |
| · Heather Thompson is a travel consultant who has worked in the Youth Development, Expedition and Adventure Travel industry for the last 10 years. More recently she has set up her own coffee business. |
| · Alice Thompson is a psycology undergraduate at Edinburgh Unviversity, this summer she went on her first expedition to Nepal with a group of other students. |
| · Terra Tolley is President of the Graduate Students of Conflict Studies at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and George Mason University. She fell in love with the Balkans in 2005 when trekking along the Albanian coast. She plans to implement an environmental and arts-based identity exploration project in the Balkans Peace park, Bosnia. |
| · Joanna Vestey is an award winning London based photographer. |
| · Debbie Winton works in Oxford for the environmental charity Earthwatch as a Research Officer particularly focusing on the Oceans programme. |
| · Kate Worthington - From an early age Kate has been exploring the UK mountains, a qualified Summer Mountain Leader and co-owner of RAW Adventures, kate is now focusing on working with a wide range of clinets helping them access the outdoors safely. She is also the UK representative of the Patagonia Mountaineering School. |